Oral Question·Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
“If he will take steps to increase housebuilding through densification of urban areas through the use of local authority-approved building codes that pre-approve buildings.”
Tabled: 25 May 2023Answered: 5 June 2023
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Answer from Hansard
The Prime Minister
We are delivering the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation, and we are proud to do so. Our £39 billion investment will deliver around 300,000 social and affordable homes, with at least 60% of homes delivered for social rent. While we do not intend to remove the right to buy, which helps social tenants to get on the property ladder, we are reforming the scheme to protect social housing stock and encourage councils to deliver more new homes.